Imprecision in documentation of -newer

The manual (current git) says: True if the time of the last access (or status change or data modification) > of the current file is more recent than that of the last data modification > of the @var{reference} file. > Presumably it really means: True if the time of the last access (or status chan

Missing bits of regexprops.texi

The documentation as generated for findutils refers to "ed" syntax, but does not define it. ("posix-basic" is given as a synonym for "ed".) -- https://rrt.sc3d.org

Typo in comment

In locate.c, the following line contains a double comma which should be a single comma (checked against current git): * setuid-access-controlled database,, since that could cause a leak -- https://rrt.sc3d.org

Re: Documentation question

On 14 August 2010 16:46, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On 4 August 2010 09:54, James Youngman wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> >>> "in regexprops-generic.texi, I think that having a plain English >>> definition of the various s

Re: Documentation question

On 4 August 2010 09:54, James Youngman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Reuben Thomas wrote: > >> "in regexprops-generic.texi, I think that having a plain English >> definition of the various syntaxes obscures the fact that each is >> defined as a strict c

Documentation question

I've volunteered to help get GNU regex documentation into gnulib. Bruno Haible pointed me here because of one of my suggestions which potentially affects findutils. I wrote: "in regexprops-generic.texi, I think that having a plain English definition of the various syntaxes obscures the fact that e

Typo in updatedb(1)

reached; Any should be reached; any in updatedb.1. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | The shorter the better

Re: Typo in manual

On Mon, 12 May 2008, Jim Meyering wrote: Reuben Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "If there is the faintest possibility that one of the files for which you are searching might contain a newline, you should use @samp{-print0} instead." "that one of the files" -->

Typo in manual

"If there is the faintest possibility that one of the files for which you are searching might contain a newline, you should use @samp{-print0} instead." "that one of the files" --> "that the name of one of the files" This occurs twice, at least. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | dumb blonde, n. susbt.

[bug #19120] Patch to fix single quotes in man page find(1)

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #19120 (project findutils): If this patch has not already been made in some form, it may help to know that I've made a copyright assignment to findutils, so you can use it. If it has already been made, feel free to close this item. _

Manual correction

This seems to apply to CVS head: Node: Single File Under the entry for -execdir: "The command is executed in the directory in which @code{find} was run." But in fact it's executed in the directory in which the object is found. (Maybe that's what the above sentence meant to whoever wrote it, b

Possible correction to find manual

Node: Single File "Any command lines which have been built by `-exec ... \+' or `-execdir ... \+' are invoked before the program is executed." Should "executed" be "exited"?

Re: [bug #19120] Patch to fix single quotes in man page find(1)

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, James Youngman wrote: But see also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/findutils-patches/2007-07/msg1.html OK, so you seem to have fixed this bug anyway. You can close mine, then. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | think tank, n. a safe container for noxious gases

Re: [bug #19120] Patch to fix single quotes in man page find(1)

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, James Youngman wrote: Follow-up Comment #3, bug #19120 (project findutils): The only problem is size. Because of the size of the patch, it would require a copyright assignment. However, the proposed changes are straightforward. This means it is probably more efficient to

[bug #19120] Patch to fix single quotes in man page find(1)

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #19120 (project findutils): Is there some problem with this patch? I'd like to see a nicer-looking (and more useful) man page! ___ Reply to this item at: _

[bug #19120] Patch to fix single quotes in man page find(1)

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